How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

Challenges of Building for Current AI Models and Anthropic's Shipping Pace00:00

It's very hard to be the right amount of AGI pilled. It's very easy to build the product for the super AGI strong model. The hard thing is figuring out for the current model, how do you elicit the maximum capability?

Anthropic ships at an unprecedented pace. Timelines for product features have gone down from 6 months to 1 month and sometimes to even one day. They want to remove every single barrier to shipping things.

PMs approaching it incorrectly by focusing on traditional methods. The PM role is changing quickly. For AI native products, iterating quickly and launching features every single week is extremely important.

Emerging skills for PMs come back to product taste. As code becomes much cheaper to write, deciding what to write becomes more valuable.

Cat Wu is Head of Product for Claude Code and co-work at Anthropic. Her team is building products changing how we build products.

Cat Wu's Role and Collaboration with Boris01:33

Cat works alongside Boris, who created Claude Code, leads the team, and ships a bazillion PRs a day from his phone. Boris is the product visionary, setting the vision for what the product needs to be in 3-6 months, the AGI pilled version.

Cat's role is figuring out the path from today to that vision. She spends more time on cross-functional alignment: ensuring marketing, sales, finance, capacity are bought in, all rowing in the same direction, no blockers to shipping.